The dream fields of Florida : Mexican farmworkers and the myth of belonging /

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Using ethnographic data from several immigrant farmworker communities in Florida, Schmidt unravels the embedded structural inequalities of U.S. society and the ideological discourses that mask them. This book is a timely and increasingly necessary look at one of the most invisible populations in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schmidt, Ella
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2009.
Subjects:
Foreign workers, Mexican > Florida > Social conditions > Case studies.
Agricultural laborers > Florida > Social conditions > Case studies.
Children of foreign workers > Florida > Social conditions > Case studies.
Immigrants > Florida > Social conditions > Case studies.
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation > Florida > Case studies.
Group identity > Case studies.
Travailleurs étrangers mexicains > Floride > Conditions sociales > Études de cas.
Travailleurs agricoles > Floride > Conditions sociales > Études de cas.
Enfants de travailleurs étrangers > Floride > Conditions sociales > Études de cas.
Immigrants > Intégration > Floride > Études de cas.
Identité collective > Études de cas.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Agricultural laborers > Social conditions
Children of foreign workers > Social conditions
Foreign workers, Mexican > Social conditions
Group identity
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation
Immigrants > Social conditions
Einwanderung
Landarbeiter
Soziale Situation
Identität
Florida
Mexikaner.
Case studies
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Table of Contents:
  • The hidden, shameful presence
  • The imposition of identities
  • Identities, localities, globalities
  • Schools as alienating institutions
  • Rituals of daily life: past sorrows, present prides
  • Straddling the tracks: Mexican farmworkers and the politics of identity
  • Conclusions.

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